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Title: Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story.
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company Tunnels
Publisher: New York : American Photograph Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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uilt on what is known to the engineering fraternityas the tangent form, which means simply that the tracks in the stations are perfectlyparallel with the platforms, that there are no curves where the passengers are allowedto enter the cars, thus avoiding the dangers of the wide step so often found in othertransit systems of the great metropolis. There are two platforms in each terminal, the arriving and departing. Passengersbeing given egress and ingress on opposite sides of the cars, thereby avoiding the stationdelays heretofore so perplexing. The stations are designed with a view to permanency, comfort and beauty. Theyafford ample facilities, not only for the business of the present, but for the increasingtraffic of the future. Steel and Concrete Throughout. Steel and concrete alone enter into the construc-tion of these subterranean stations. Vaulted arches rise on all sides, from whose artisticand substantial sides gently glow the irridescence of the electric bulb, which casts over
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Making ready to concrete the cloistered roof of a station. the scene a gentle halo as of early twilight, reminding one most forcibly of a treasuredvisit to some sombre cloister, or to the vaulted cellars of some old mediaeval castle onthe picturesque Rhine, wherein are ageing and ripening the luscious juices of the grape.The wand of the magician seems to have left its mystic spell, the touch of the artist itsharmonizing beauty, the brain of the architect the air of security and stability, and themoulding and stroke of the artisan its ever-present and masterly monument to Ameri-can engineering enterprise. Ventilation. There is always a gentle breeze here. The trains in their passing tooand fro act as giant pistons whose every movement changes the atmosphere in thetunnel, forcing out the foul air, and creating a vacuum in the rear which draws in asupply of fresh air from the surface, thereby giving an absolutely perfect ventilation.It is for this sanitation system that the web-wall was

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